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nials, with aromatic roots and fruit, 2 - 3-ternately compound leaves, and white 

 flowers. (Named from the country Liguria, where the oificiual Lovage of the 

 gardens, L. Levisticum, abounds.) 



1. Li. 8c6ticiim, L. (SCOTCH LOVAGE.) Very smooth; stem (2 

 high) nearly simple; leaves 2-ternate; leaflets rhombic-ovate, coarsely toothed 

 or cut ; leaflets of the involucre and involucels linear ; calyx-teeth distinct ; 

 fruit narrowl ij oblong. Salt marshes, from Rhode Island northward. Aug. 

 Root acrid but aromatic. (Eu.) 



2. Li. a,cc!3ifo3iU3n, Michx. (NOXDO. ANGBLICO.) Smooth; stem 

 (3 -6 high) branched above; the numerous umbels forming a loose and naked 

 somewhat whorled panicle, the lateral ones mostly barren ; leaves 3-ternate; leaf- 

 lets broadly ovate, equally serrate, the end ones often 3-parted; calyx-teeth 

 minute ; ribs of the si tort fmit wing-like. Rich woods, Virginia, Kentucky, 

 and southward along the mountains. July, Aug. Root large, with the strong 

 aromatic odor and taste of Angelica. (Michaux's habitat, "Banks of the St. 

 Lawrence," is probably a mistake.) 



16. THASPIUM, Nutt. MEADOW-PARSNIP. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete or short. Fruit ovoid or oblong, somewhat flattish or 

 contracted at the sides (the cross-section of each seed orbicular and somewhat 

 angled or 5-angular) ; the carpels each with 5 strong and equal ribs or wings, 

 the lateral ones marginal : oil-tubes single in each interval. Perennial herbs, 

 with 1 -2-ternntely divided leaves (or the root-leaves simple), umbels with no 

 involucre, minute few-leaved involucels, and yellow or sometimes dark-purple 

 flowers. (Name a play upon Thapsia, a genus so called from the island of 

 Thapsus.) I include in this genus Zizia, Koch, because what is apparently 

 the same species lias the fruit either ribbed or winged, and retain the name 

 of Zizia for Z. intcgcrrima, DC. 



# Stems loosely branched, 2 5 high, mostly pubescent on the joints: calyx short but 

 muni fist : corolla light yellow : leaves all temately compound. 



1. T. bai'biildile, Nutt. Leaves 1- 3-ternate; leaflets ovate or lance- 

 ovate and acute, mostly -with a wedge-shaped base, above deeply cut-serrate, often 

 2-3-cleft or parted, the terminal one long-stalked (l'-2' long) ; fruit oblong, 

 -\Q-winged (3" long), some of the dorsal wings often narrow or obsolete. ~ 

 Rivcr-lumks, W. Now York to Wisconsin, and southward. July. 



2. T. |>illiiat:lidllffll. Branchlets, umbels, &c. roughish-puberulent ; 

 leaves 1 -3-ternate ; leaflets 1 - 2-pinnatifld, the lobes linear or oblong ; fruit oblong, 

 narrmcly 8- IQ-winged (!' long), the intervals minutely scabrous. (Zizia pin- 

 natifida, Bucldcy. Thaspium Walteri, Shuttlew., excl. syn. Walt.) Ban-ens 

 of Kentucky (Short), and southward in the mountains. 



* * Stems somewhat branched; the whole plant glabrous : calyx-teeth obscure. 



3. T. aiireillll, Nutt. Leaves all 1 -2-ternately dicidtd or parted (or rarely 

 some of the root-leaves simple and heart-shaped) ; the divisions or leaflets oblong' 

 lanceolate, very sharply cut-serrate, with a wedge-shaped entire base ; flowers deep 

 yellow; fruit oblong-oval, with 10 winged ridges. Moist river-banks, &c., not 

 rare. June. Leaves of a rather firm texture. 



